Archbishop of Los Angeles Celebrates Christmas with Prisoners

by Divine Chidubem

26/12/2022

in International

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Archbishop of Los Angeles Celebrates Christmas with Prisoners

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Archbishop José H. Gomez of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles spent his Christmas day celebrating Mass for the inmates in one of the most restricted areas of LA Men’s Central Jail.

May be an image of 14 people and indoor — **Archbishop delivering homily to an attentive audience**

The Archbishop’s Mass at the prison was to give hope and spread the love of Christmas with the inmates who were spending the festive period away from their families.

May be an image of 4 people, people standing and indoor — **Archbishop Gomez leading Mass at the LA Jail**

According to Archbishop Gomez, Christmas is a period of joy and the manger reminds humanity of forgiveness.

“This is the joy of Christmas -the holy Child came to earth to save us all. May the light of the manger remind us that forgiveness is possible and darkness will not prevail” Archbishop Gomez noted.

May be an image of 10 people and people standing — **Archbishop Gomez with some jail wardens**

The archbishop has celebrated Christmas Mass in the jail every year since 2011, continuing the tradition of his predecessor, Archbishop Roger Mahony.

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Daily Readings

Tuesday of the Second week in Ordinary Time

Letter to the Hebrews 6,10-20.

Brothers and sisters: God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name by having served and continuing to serve the holy ones.
We... earnestly desire each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of hope until the end,
so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, are inheriting the promises.
When God made the promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, "he swore by himself,"
and said, "I will indeed bless you and multiply" you.
And so, after patient waiting, he obtained the promise.
Human beings swear by someone greater than themselves; for them an oath serves as a guarantee and puts an end to all argument.
So when God wanted to give the heirs of his promise an even clearer demonstration of the immutability of his purpose, he intervened with an oath,
so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to hold fast to the hope that lies before us.
This we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, which reaches into the interior behind the veil,
where Jesus has entered on our behalf as forerunner, becoming high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

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